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India-ASEAN economic linkages: Challenges and way forward

India’s ‘Look East’ policy picked up steam with the conceptualisation of the Indian-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement in 2003. This column analyses the broad trends in India-ASEAN trade over the past decade, delves into the challenges involved in the economic relationship, and explores possible optio...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Trade
Year: 2016

Union Budget 2016: Will it support India's economic transformation?

In this year’s Budget speech, the Finance Minister articulated the government’s agenda to ‘Transform India’ through a set of economic reforms framed in terms of ‘nine pillars’ - agriculture, rural development, health, education and skilling, infrastructure, financial sector, governance, ...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2016

Cheaper, cleaner, more reliable: Why invest in cross-border power-trading

Despite improvements to energy supply over the years, many Indian states still face frequent power shortages. Meanwhile, neighbouring countries such as Nepal and Bhutan have large reserves of untapped hydropower with the potential to meet unserved demand for energy in major load centres. Investing i...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Environment
Year: 2016

Union Budget 2016: A UPA-III Budget

In this article, Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, contends that the Modi government presented a reasonably good United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-III Budget that tinkers at the margin. However, in his view, minor tweaks may not suffice in the current growth...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2016

Union Budget 2016: Focus on reforms and fiscal commitments

The Union Budget 2016-17 was presented by the Finance Minister earlier this week. In this article, Rathin Roy, Director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, applauds the Budget for maintaining prudence, enhancing the government’s credibility as a fiscal manager, and initiating i...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2016

How are India's new states faring?

In the year 2000, three new states – Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand – were carved out of the large states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh respectively. This column analyses the performance of the new entities before and after breakup, and in relation to their respective rump ...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Governance
Year: 2016

Land in India: Market price vs. fundamental value

The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2015, is focused on protecting the few home buyers who can afford to buy homes but does not address the issue of high land prices, which is a very serious problem. This column demonstrates that the market prices of land in India are very high compar...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2016

Growth, Urbanisation and Rural-Urban Linkages in Bihar

The project aimed to explore the reasons for low urbanization in the state and identify its regional pattern across the State and its economic and social characteristics. The findings of the study indicate that industrialisation and urbanisation in the state of Bihar is very much Patna-centric. Urba...

  • IGC Research on India

Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2016

Ganga pollution cases: Impact on infant mortality

In response to a writ petition against pollution of the river Ganga due to industrial waste, the Supreme Court of India in 1987 mandated the tanneries in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh to either clean up or shut down. This column finds that the ruling resulted in a significant drop in river pollution, which ...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Environment
Year: 2016

Can India beat this slowdown?

RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has cautioned the government against seeking to generate economic growth by increasing public spending and hence, adding to the fiscal deficit. In this article, Jayan Jose Thomas, Associate Professor of Economics at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, puts forth the vi...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2016

Maternal mortality and gender prejudice

While maternal mortality has fallen sharply in the last decade, it remains unnecessarily high at about 800 deaths a day worldwide. Moreover, there is enormous variation in levels and rates of decline across countries, even after accounting for differences in income. This column discusses new evidenc...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2016

The Growth of Cities in India, 1870-2020

The aim of this project is to understand the determinants of city growth in India in the short run and over the long period. By analysing data on cities from every decennial Census conducted in India between 1872 and 2011 and economic, demographic, social and geographic data obtained from other sour...

  • IGC Research on India

Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Urbanisation
Year: 2016